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Well, my 1'er left me stranded for the first time. Was at a Costco gas station when I tried to start the car with nothing but just a weak click. Tried jumping the car with a boost pack and still nothing. Decided to get a tow. Tow truck driver shows up and tries to jump my car with his bigger jump pack. Still nothing. So off to the repair shop it goes. This is also where we had to learn on the fly how to get the damn DCT into neutral. Never did it before with the engine dead.
I debated having my car towed to my house which isn't that far away to see if I can troubleshoot the problem. But decided to have it towed to my nearby BMW indie repair shop since I had to fly out for work in a couple of days. I did go back and scanned the car which came up with a CAS terminal 50 problem. Looked up some info on this and found that it coulde be the IBS sensor, wiring to the starter, bad starter, bad positive cable in the engine compartment from the jump terminal, bad CAS module, and possiby a bad battery.
Well, shop got it fixed and said the power cable to the starter was almost totally detached off the wiring terminal. They reterminated the cable and the engine fired right up. They also checked the battery and found it to be marginal so that was replaced too.
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